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SANs Go International By Tom Clark | Article Published February 17, 2004 SANs are going international, both serving and linking disparate parts of the world. Tom Clark reveals how several factors are driving the high adoption rate of SANs internationally and why the U.S. may be in danger of falling behind on the technology curve. Storage Reality Check - Open Systems Standardization By Tom Clark | Article Published February 4, 2004 Open systems standardization for storage has been an elusive goal that may well never come to pass. As Tom Clark explains, a more realistic objective might be to offer customers the flexibility of using a diversity of products with the look and feel, if not the reality, of openness. Towards Trusted and Open Solutions By Tom Clark | Article Published October 8, 2003 With a stated mission of ensuring that storage networks become efficient, complete, and trusted solutions, how well has the storage industry performed in providing solutions that meet these requirements and that are also closely aligned with real customer needs? It Isn't Easy Being You By Tom Clark | Article Published September 22, 2003 Caught in a tug-of-war among restrictive budgets, increasing user demands, and vendor product limitations, the storage administrator often ends up as the knot in the middle of a very tight rope. Thankfully, help is on the way, but can it get here quickly enough? Security Spotlight Shines on SANs By Tom Clark | Article Published June 9, 2003 In insecure times, security threats seem to be everywhere, and heightened security awareness is rampant. While SAN technology's rudimentary security managed to avoid scrutiny in its early days, it too is now coming under the security spotlight. What security threats exist today for storage area networks, and how can you protect your SANs from them? The SAN Management Dilemma By Tom Clark | Article Published May 27, 2003 Since the advent of SANs, customers have complained that storage area networks are difficult to manage. While SANs are unlikely to ever become self-configuring and self-administrating, industry-sponsored efforts like SNIA's Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and the integration of SAN-aware functionality into OSes should make it much easier for customers to deploy and support SANs in the near future. Bringing SANs to the Masses By Tom Clark | Article Published April 22, 2003 While SANs have proven value for large data center applications, until recently it has been unclear whether SAN technology could provide comparable value for medium-sized and smaller businesses. Tom Clark reveals how recent market developments such as lower cost modular shared storage arrays, more economical disk drives, and IP-based storage products are generating a lower entry cost for SANs and are bringing shared storage to a broader market. |
